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Is Trump Preparing a Coup d’état? Nope, He’s Writing a TrumpTV Script

The US President tweeted that the “fraudulent” elections in November should be postponed: he’s already preparing to exit the White House as a “victim”

Stefano VaccarabyStefano Vaccara
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In one of his usual morning tweets, in which he decides what the talk of the day will be for media outlets, Trump decides to post that the November elections risk being the most “INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT” (all in caps) and that to avoid a “great embarrassment for the United States”,  we should postpone the presidential election until “the public can properly, securely vote???” (with 3 question marks):  All this coinciding on the same day with catastrophic news about the economy.

Should we be surprised? Not in the least. It’s been years that I have been stating in this column that the U.S. Constitution and Trump are mutually exclusive!  Even if in this case, we think that Trump is pretending not to know the law, let’s remember that the president of the United States can never decide the date of a presidential election or the election of the Congress. The Constitution is clear; it is the Congress that votes into law if an election that must take place on “the first Tuesday of November” must be postponed. Since the House is controlled by the Democratic Party, which would never accept Trump’s “suggestions”, this proposal has no chance of going forward. Trump now maintains that COVID-19 will be too dangerous for voters? (Oh, so voting poses a risk, but reopening schools doesn’t? So much for consistency). We will vote by mail; this will be the response of the Democrats.

However, if Trump knows that he doesn’t have any legal recourse for postponing the election, why is it that he’s suggesting this to his millions of followers on Twitter? Is he planning a coup? Even though Trump has repeatedly shown himself to have an outdated Fascist disposition and Fascist ideas, as he recently displayed in Portland, he knows very well that if he even tried to impose his will on the foundational principle of the American democracy–the electoral process–he would be crushed and, I hope, finally behind bars. Trump, however, trying to change the news cycle that announced a failing economy while he wrongly claims that it is in recovery, opted to announce his final campaign strategy: the “delegitimization” of election results.

Since he has by now understood that Joe Biden is going to bury him in a democratic landslide, even in states that up to now have been a lock for the GOP, at this point he’s trying to use the weapon of delegitimization: the election results are to be erased – at least in theory.

This morning’s tweet, which had already been preceded in the past weeks by other statements about how the elections will be “stolen” by the democrats, serves this purpose: to prepare his base for the statement that he will make on election night after Biden will have declared victory. At that point, his followers will be ready to protest and make it so that when Trump leaves the limelight (because he will be ousted from the White House, as the Secret Service will have to take care of the new president), he’ll be able to state that he did not lose, that he is still the winner, as the Democrats will have rigged the election with the vote by mail, etc. In reality, Trump only thinks of himself — and of the future, yes, but not the future of the USA. Of his own! He’s probably already preparing his next TV show, to air on a new TrumpTV, that from January 21, 2021 will announce: “America, You’re Fired!”

Translated by Emmelina De Feo

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Stefano Vaccara

Stefano Vaccara

Sono nato e cresciuto in Sicilia, la chiave di tutto secondo un romantico tedesco. Infanzia rincorrendo un pallone dai Salesiani e liceo a Palermo, laurea a Siena, master a Boston. L'incontro col giornalismo avviene in America, per Il Giornale di Montanelli, poi tanti anni ad America Oggi e il mio weekly USItalia. Vivo a New York con la mia famiglia americana e dal Palazzo di Vetro ho raccontato l’ONU per Radio Radicale. Amo insegnare: prima downtown, alla New School, ora nel Bronx, al Lehman College della CUNY. Alle verità comode non ci credo e così ho scritto Carlos Marcello: The Man Behind the JFK Assassination (Enigma Books 2013 e 2015). Ho fondato e dirigo La VOCE di New York, convinto che la chiave di tutto sia l’incontro fra "liberty & beauty" e con cui ho vinto il Premio Amerigo 2018. I’m Sicilian, born in Mazara del Vallo and raised in Palermo. I studied history in Siena and went to graduate school at Boston University. While in school, I started to write for Il Giornale di Montanelli. I then got a full-time job for America Oggi and moved to New York City. My dream was to create a totally independent Italian paper in New York to be read all over the world: I finally founded La VOCE di New York. In 2018 I won the "Amerigo Award". I’m a journalist, but I’m also a teacher. I love both. I cover the United Nations, and I correspond from the UN for Radio Radicale in Rome. I teach Media Studies and also a course on the Mafia, not Hollywood style but the real one, at Lehman College, CUNY. I don't believe in "comfortable truth" and so I wrote the book "Carlos Marcello: The Man Behind the JFK Assassination" (Enigma Books 2013 e 2015). I love cooking for my family. My favorite dish: spaghetti con le vongole.

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